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Originally Posted by vmfriend
Not sure I agree with the water analogy, my water is metered and if I left my taps on all day my 'flow' wouldn't be restricted. I would just get billed for what I used. I wouldn't get cut off either.
I suspect downloading habits would change if people were charged by the gb.
I think it's a sad indictment of society when people get lambasted for pointing out that downloading movies by torrents etc etc is illegal.
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You appear to be trying to compare a metered service to an unmetered service. I think you have the wrong end of the stick, I compared an UNMETERED water service to an UNMETERED broadband service. That makes my example comparable. You have made a mistake there, your example is not comparable.
The current system works fine, and is dead reasonable. Unless one actually tries to break the system by going all mental and turning it all the way up to 11 24h a day the system works fine. We do not need to go back in time to a metered system, if we do things like Youview will not be practical and we'll all have to switch away from VM in 2012 which we mostly don't want to do.
So long as VM and other ISPs keep up with normal usage developments we'll all be fine.
One other comment. Downloading torrents of copyrighted material is not illegal. I am not one for doing this, but I am fed up with trolls coming on here and trying to claim this is covered by criminal law in some way when we all know this is a civil matter. Stop trolling. It's not big and it's not clever.